What if you were the England national team manager and/or the U-21s manager? Who would you select? Would you go for the typical top four club players or go for the in-form guys who play for clubs like Southampton, Swansea?
My starting 11 for the game against Scotland would have to be:
Forster
Jones - Dawson (c) - Jagielka - Cole
Carrick - Lampard
Walcott - Wilshere - A. Johnson
Lambert
Subs: Hart, Walker, Smalling, Cahill, Baines, Milner, Lennon, Lallana, Defoe
My starting 11 for U-21s game against Scotland U-21s would have to be:
Butland
Kane - Wisdom - Robinson - Shaw
Chalobah - McEachran
Zaha - G. Gardner - Ince
Kane
Subs: Johnstone, Jenkinson, Dier, W. Hughes, T. Carroll, Oxlade-Chamberlain, N. Powell, Wickham
My starting 11 for the game against Scotland would have to be:
Forster
Jones - Dawson (c) - Jagielka - Cole
Carrick - Lampard
Walcott - Wilshere - A. Johnson
Lambert
Subs: Hart, Walker, Smalling, Cahill, Baines, Milner, Lennon, Lallana, Defoe
My starting 11 for U-21s game against Scotland U-21s would have to be:
Butland
Kane - Wisdom - Robinson - Shaw
Chalobah - McEachran
Zaha - G. Gardner - Ince
Kane
Subs: Johnstone, Jenkinson, Dier, W. Hughes, T. Carroll, Oxlade-Chamberlain, N. Powell, Wickham